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This includes 11 primary source pages (pictures, documents, quotations) for introducing Manifest Destiny. I use it like graffiti - on big paper....
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Introduce totalitarian states (Germany, Russia, Italy, Cuba, etc.) using this excerpt from 1984 and discussion questions. The kids really enjoy ...
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This includes a Review Sheet, Test (Definitions, Multiple Choice, Fill in the Blanks, DBQs and Open Responses). It includes an answer key for th...
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The file contains a grading rubric which will help you evaulate DBQ essays quickly and helps students analyze their own work.
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This is an intriguing, intellectually stimulating synthesis prompt that can be easily adapted for the AP Language classroom. The topic/issue is o...
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This document explores the working conditions in English coal pits during the Industrial Revolution. It includes pre and post-activity discussio...
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Soviet communist youth documents - primary sources with corresponding student handout and discussion questions.
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Good writing is like painting--two-thirds preparation, one-third painting or writing.
This is a formula to help students devise a sound thesis a...
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This is a collection of documents and a prompt centered around the 1920's and 1930's
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Use this to show why the third estate was so angry. There are excerpts from primary sources and discussion questions that follow.
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Have you ever started a lesson by asking your class to open their textbooks to page 77? It's important to get students engaged in the subject bef...
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Use this to integrate some literature into your Social Studies class. This excerpt would fit well into any absolute monarch section.
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This guided group discussion activity uses direct quotes from the Eric Foner "Give Me Liberty!" textbook and government graphics to help students...
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This DBQ/Open Response is based on a quote from the French Revolution. It includes multiple questions and a sample essay format to assist studen...
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AUTHENTIC PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENT!
This is one page of a multipage Will and Testament of a slave owner that resided in Forsyth, Georgia. During ...
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This activity has proven to be very powerful and insightful in my past World History classes.
In short, each student is given a different card ...
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This includes a review sheet with terms and essay topics and a complete test on the Industrial Revolution. The test includes fill in the blank, ...
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This unit project asks students to compare the 5 major world religions as a foundation to the first unit for AP World History. (Could be modifie...
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This includes a version of the Constitution & Bill of Rights that has questions and vocab embedded into it. It also includes an activity that di...
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This activity includes pre and post reading discussion questions and a primary source on the Hitler Youth.
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Here's an original synthesis-style essay prompt that's perfect for AP Lang & Comp or a college Comp/Rhetoric class (where I use it). Can be used ...
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Introduction to Hobbes and Locke/Enlightenment Activity. Includes discussion questions on good and evil and two short readings one from Hobbes an...
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This provides basic background to the Armenian Genocide, a link to a 25 minute documentary, and then a graffiti classroom activity that is ready ...
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This is a 5 document analysis writing activity to help students in viewing, analyzing, and processing primary source documents. A writing prompt...
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90 Minutes
This is a four 90 minute class period research project where students design an AP Language & Composition style synthesis essay question (with so...
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This is a computer lab or classroom laptop activity that guides students through several sites, including the Brown Foundation and nara.gov, orga...
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Socratic discussion questions for student discussion groups for Christopher Phillips' "Constitution Cafe" examining the belief that a republic wi...
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Discussion questions aimed at guiding students' critical thinking through Ch. 1 and Ch. 2 of Christopher Phillips' "Constitutional Cafe." Chapter...
This is a DBQ that will allow students in World History, AP World History, and European History courses to analyze views towards the Crusades.
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This DBQ Activity allows students to view a fictional college admissions file as a "DBQ" so that they can better understand the need for an addit...
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This is a Word doc file that examines the reason Christopher Phillips wrote "Constitutional Cafe." It guides students through Ch. 11 to determine...
In this file receive vocab preparation, blogging ideas, a summative quiz, and a formative set of questions while students read the book. This non...
Gilded Age DBQ for students enrolled in a 9-12 AP US History class.
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Use of color is a tremendous memory aid and I begin the use of color to aid memory in the Colonial Era. From fifth grade through high school I ha...
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An abridged version of the Northwest Ordinance that includes reading strategy, discussion questions, and vocabulary.
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Complete Declaration of Independence activity with discussion questions, vocabulary and reading strategy.
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This DBQ asks students to identify the different causes of the American Revolution through utilizing a variety of primary and secondary sources.
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This is a collection of documents inteneded to be used for a Document Based Question (DBQ). This DBQ is based on the question 'what caused the C...
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This Document Based Essay Question centers on the changes and turmoil in the United States during the year 1968. Students are asked to explore a ...
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This Document Based Question has been designed for the United States History and AP US History student to use documents to expand their writing o...
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A summarization PowerPoint to be used for closure class discussion centering on the concepts of contact, collision, castastrophe, conquer whether...
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The impact of New Deal stimulus deficit spending will be more relevant to students if compared to the Bush bank bailout and Obama's stimulus defi...
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This activity is perfect for the computer lab or for student laptop instruction appropriate to APUSH or HIST 1301/1302 students. The activity mov...
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This includes pre-reading, reading, post-reading questions, and post-reading group work and discussion questions.
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This Song is a modern rockin remake of an anti-French song entitled New Verses to an Old Tune that was written and published in an American Newsp...
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This form can be printed on cardstock for durability. Everyday, you can ask 5 questions about a learning target. Students write a one-word answ...
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This cooperative learning lesson lets students analyze primary resources documents from the Presidential election of 1856. Students will learn a...
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This DBQ asks students to identify the aims and goals of American foreign policy in the years between 1776 and 1801.
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This DBQ asks students to analyze the different compromises made during the creation of the Constitution of the United States.
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Primary source analysis worksheet containing excerpts from Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense.' 2 page reading with 6 short answer questions. Great for...
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